Dave Wampler Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Serve as AVP of FP&A for Cox Automotive overseeing all financial and business operations for large and key automotive dealer groups and OEMs. Provide primary support to newly appointed Chief Sales Officer. Lead team responsible for initial enterprise-wide financial reporting and analysis. Partnered with key sales leaders, including Chief Sales Officer on strategy, financial planning, and compensation. Developed work plan with 7 tracks (reduced from 43), including creation of new Chief Sales Officer dashboard and compensation planning parameters, reducing variable compensation plans from 250+ to less than 10 while dramatically improving connection to business levers.  Recognized as trusted advisor regarding business expectations and key communicator of performance. Provided accurate (projections consistently within 1% of final) weekly forecasts, improving senior management's visibility for decision-making. Established credibility by standing up accurate and timely reporting across Cox Automotive. Served as organizational leader and primary financial liaison to senior financial and operational leadership for key dealer and OEM performance. Established aggressive, but attainable, budgets for teams to drive top-line growth with key dealer and OEM teams consistently out-performing growth of business overall. Developed high-performing business operations team built on diversity. Leveraged tenure and relationships within Cox to recruit, motivate and retain top talent. Consistently built teams that were more diverse than company’s overall demographics.

Greater Atlanta Area

Lead all financial and business operations for Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, and Dealer.com. Provided financial thought leadership for Media Solutions as businesses started to exit initial high double-digit growth cycle and began to mature to low single digit growth. Remained critical to rationalize revenue growth expectations which better aligned operating and capital expense growth with revised lower revenue expectations. Drove initiatives to restructure cost profile and implemented expense management measures commensurate with revenue growth, reducing operating and capital expense growth by 1-2% a year across long-range plan. Organizational leader and primary financial liaison to senior financial and operational leadership on Cox Automotive’s Media Solutions division financial performance and business outlook.

Greater Atlanta Area

Lead all financial and business operations for Autotrader.

Greater Atlanta Area

Oversaw all financial and business operations. Developed and implemented overall strategic business plan. Ensured accurate and timely reporting of all financial results. Full P&L accountability and enterprise-wide people leader. Communicated financial results to senior leaders and frontline employees. Key member of Cox Media’s senior leadership team; collaborated and led organization through comprehensive business transformation. Modeled case for change to garner organizational support for needed transformation and path for self-funding of transformational activities. Recognized with Cox Vision award for efforts.  Provided financial thought leadership for Cox Media’s audience aggregation strategy designed to compete in an increasingly fragmented market. Successfully represented Cox competitor homes for ad sales purposes at a time when Cox Communications was losing subscribers. Transformed Cox Media business operations team from decentralized reporting function to providing center-led strategic financial leadership and granular analysis. Led standardization of data and Business Intelligence to allow for centralized operations. Centralized all variable pay functions for Cox Media, leading to reduced resources, higher accuracy, and stronger linkage of pay plans to business goals. Stood up, deployed and managed Cox Media’s Business Intelligence program, providing actionable information for better management decisions.